"This dosen't have to end in tragedy" @melissa9812 - Tumblr Blog

Not everything happens for a reason. Some things happen purely because evil exists in the world. That did not happen to you because you deserved it. It didn’t happen to you because you needed to learn a lesson. There are lessons you can learn without experiencing pain.

linktoo-doodles

it’s teru tuesday!! happy birthday teru

lordgolden

Shrek 2 is better than anything Quentin Tarantino has ever done

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abirdepisode

i’m slowly convincing my mother that people should be able to live without giving all of their lives to a boss.

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grimeclown

Wow you know if this quarantine extends into next month then people are really gonna be h

grimeclown

Theyre really gonna be hom shdtk

grimeclown

This april 13th we’re all gonna be homeshryodksbfnftk

Happy 2021 everyone

Hey if the British Museum still has all their stolen artifacts, does that mean that other countries can have Prince Phillip’s mummy?

pyaasa

This is the kind of thing you see in dystopian movies

guccixcucci

People are complaining that certain places are gonna start requiring a covid vaccine as if this is the first ever "mandatory" (not even) vaccine. You received like 6 vaccines when you were a baby and a couple more as you got older. Countries have been requiring yellow fever vaccines. Most schools you need certain vaccines to attend this isn't new. Immunization cards are not a new concept

gothhabiba

I wonder how many of the people beginning & inflaming arguments about fanfiction versus “literature” on here with purposeful exaggerations and generalisations are even vaguely familiar with the increasingly large body of scholarship on fandom and fanfiction published in the fields of media and cultural studies, anthropology, &, yes, literary studies

gothhabiba

arguments along the lines of “I don’t know how to explain to you that Dante’s Inferno is not the same as your 100k word slowburn enemies-to-lovers Destiel pornographic coffeeshop AU” are fascinating to me because (however much they may point to them, and however much the people voicing this kind of thing may have ones that they’re not expressing) they are in fact not arguments. they’re allusions to a hierarchy of literary value that the people making these kinds of statements feel that they can rest on in lieu of an argument. that is, we can refuse to proffer an actual definition or theory of literary “value,” or a socially situated theory of the production and reception of “literature” versus fanfiction, by just stating the nonequivalence of fanfiction and literature (the fact that “literature” is functionally different and superior) as a matter of “common sense.” this type of rhetoric reacts to the inflated claims of fanfiction and fan culture to literary merit and subversive potential, not with an assessment of what fanfiction is or does or the communities in which it’s created, but with a retreat to a previously delineated position.

& so of course the response to what’s interpreted as just more literary snobbery is a restatement of those inflated claims (“I’d rather read something fan-created with actual representation than a bunch of classics written by old white men and canonised by other old white men”). it goes [literary snobbery and denigration of fan culture] -> [fan culture is extremely sophisticated and radical, actually (what Gray et. al called the “Fandom is Beautiful” wave of research in the 80s)] -> [literary snobbery and denigration of fan culture] -> [fan culture is extremely sophisticated and radical, actually]. all the while the people on both sides of this pendulum get no closer to the kind of cooperation of narratological and sociological methods that would be required to articulate an actual theory of how and why fanfiction is created, its relationship to other kinds of media and writing, and what it does for the people who write and read it, because we’re all too busy arguing about whether or not it’s “good”

tl;dr: your argument is stuck in the 80s & you’re all wrong

gothhabiba

Thomas, Brownen. “What Is Fanfiction and Why Are People Saying Such Nice Things about It??” Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, Vol. 3 (2011), pp. 1-24. (start with this one)

– “Canons and Fanons: Literary Fanfiction Online.”

Hellekson, Karen & Kristina Busse, eds. Fan Fiction and Fan Identities in the Age of the Internet (McFarland & Company, 2006)

– The Fan Fiction Studies Reader (University of Iowa Press, 2014)

Booth, Paul ed. A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (Wiley Blackwell, 2018)

Booth, Paul. Digital Fandom: New Media Studies (Peter Lang, 2010)

De Kosnik, Abigail. Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom (MIT Press, 2016)

Gray, Jonathan et. al. Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (NYU Press, 2007)

Turk, Tisha. “Metalepsis in Fan Vids and Fan Fiction.” In Metalepsis in Popular Culture, eds. Karin Kukkonen and Sonia Klimek (Walter de Gruyter, 2011).

all books available on libgen, all articles either open access or just plug the DOI into scihub

melissa9812

Let's not forget that most works are fanfictios from the Bible or Y/N dialogs talking about what they think hahaha